How To Install weechat-curses on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install weechat-curses on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is weechat-curses
weechat-curses is:
WeeChat (Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) is a fast and light chat client for many operating systems. Everything can be done with a keyboard. It is customizable and extensible with plugins/scripts, and includes:
- support of IRC protocol (native)
- support of XMPP/Jabber protocol (with additional script)
- nicklist
- smart hotlist
- horizontal and vertical split
- double charset support (decode/encode)
- FIFO pipe for remote control
- 256 colors support
- incremental text search
- dynamic filtering of buffer content
- Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Tcl, Scheme and Javascript scripting
- scripts manager
- spell checking
- highly customizable and extensible
- and much more!
This package provides the console client (ncurses).
There are three methods to install weechat-curses on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install weechat-curses Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install weechat-curses using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install weechat-curses
Install weechat-curses Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install weechat-curses using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install weechat-curses
Install weechat-curses Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install weechat-curses using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install weechat-curses
How To Uninstall weechat-curses on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the weechat-curses package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove weechat-curses
Uninstall weechat-curses And Its Dependencies
To uninstall weechat-curses and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove weechat-curses
Remove weechat-curses Configurations and Data
To remove weechat-curses configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge weechat-curses
Remove weechat-curses configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove weechat-curses configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge weechat-curses
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install weechat-curses package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
